Posting To Public Profiles: Posting any type of image to a public profile makes the image subject to the rules of the site and open to public and moderator scrutiny. These images are part of the community and the community can define what is acceptable or what is excessive. If an image is allowed or deleted it is based on the current established rules, the decisions of other Listal members and the judgment of the Listal staff.

Please treat this area with respect to your fellow Listal members.

Posting To Your Images: This is your place to post images that do not fit into any of the official categories of acceptable images. If you are not sure if something is allowed on a public profile, then it is always best to upload your images to this area. The only time your personal images come into question is if they are pornographic/contain nudity, overly sexual or promote excessive hate or violence.

- No images promoting hate or racism
- No excessively violent images
- No photo manipulated images beyond what was originally released
- No collages of multiple pictures
- No recoloring or crops of existing photos (e.g. b&w of an existing
color photo)

Sexually explicit poses

While some might consider this subjective, sexually explicit poses usually refers to models in the adult entertainment industry. The person can be fully 'clothed' and still be considered as inappropriate and excessively sexual.

This includes images of adult internet models, glamor models, and porn stars with an extreme focus on body parts, such as butt, breasts or feet.

Non-Sexual Nudity

Photographic images revealing any sort of "private parts," whatsoever, are not allowed under any circumstances. This includes tasteful and non-sexual nudes.

Although we are more lenient on skin-showing images which are tasteful and not sexually explicit, if such an image is showing "private parts" of any sort, it is against the rules. This includes movie posters from non-porn films, famous artist's photography and images from fashion magazines.

Watermarked or Tagged Images

That means no images with disruptive watermarks or tags. Images that are discreetly tagged are okay.

If you post images from sites like Eyeprime or JustJared, they may be deleted. Usually such images are available or will soon be available, elsewhere, untagged and in high quality. Please post images in the best quality available, (which usually does not mean from sites such as Eyeprime or JustJared). We don't need galleries to be clogged up with hundreds of tagged and inferior quality images.

We are generally more lenient on rarer images that appear to be only available tagged. This does not include most current paparazzi, magazine/photoshoot, and red carpet event pictures.

Thou Shall Not Repost Images.

We understand that now and then everyone will repost an image or two by accident. But users habitually and carelessly reposting tons of images is unacceptable. This sort of reposting would easily be avoided if the user would first check through the gallery, even just the last 5-10 pages, to make sure the image they intend to upload is not already there.

Users who habitually and carelessly repost images may be suspended from image posting privileges for a set amount of time.

Some Tips for How to Avoid Posting Duplicate Images

1. If a gallery has thousands of images and you have an older photo you want to upload, odds are that it has probably already been posted.

2. For newly released images, one can easily tell if it has been uploaded already by checking the first 5-10 pages in the gallery.

3. Looking at the first five pages of the 'top voted' images will give you an idea of what has been uploaded and from what photo shoots or events. Most duplicates are found in the first 5-6 pages. If you see an image that is similar to, then there is a good chance that the other images from that collection have also been uploaded.

4. Depending on how many images have been uploaded to a profile you may want to search ten pages of the 'most viewed' images. This is similar to the top voted but most high school photos or early publicity photos are poor quality and don't get many votes but do get plenty of people viewing the image.

5. Be careful when uploading random images of a celeb you find on someone's tumblr or blog. Just because they have been newly posted on a blog or tumblr, it doesn't mean that they are actually new. Lots of images on such sites are photoshopped, manipulated or cropped versions of the original image, which are not allowed on Listal.

6. If you need an image for your list, but don't want to bother to check through the gallery to see if it has already been posted, upload it instead into your personal profile gallery.

~ Allowed In Next Update ~
Commissioned Artwork of Movie Posters

When the additional categories are introduced. Commissioned artwork of movie posters or any other type of movie posters that were not released by the original studio, should be placed under 'Art Work'.

~ Allowed In Next Update ~
Animated Images

These may be posted under "Animated" in the upcoming Listal 2.0.

Animated images and animated images with a quote from the film might be allowed. Animated images with other types of quotes will not be allowed. You are free to post these to your personal image gallery.

~ Allowed ~
Tasteful Borderline Nudity

Images of clothesless celebs that do not show any private parts and are not sexually explicit.

Generally, the types of images considered tasteful are ones from photoshoots of mainstream US celebs, images from fashion magazines and other fashion related photos. If it's of an adult or glamor model, odds are that it's probably not considered tasteful on Listal.

Ticket stubs to theaters or concerts

Definitions

Reference to Terms Used in This List

Fan Art

Fan art is a term describing unauthorised artistic representations of elements or characters in an original work of fiction, usually created by amateur enthusiasts for their own amusement. Fan art is created by someone other than the owner of the intellectual property rights in the original work or a permitted licensee. Typically, the work of fiction is some popular book, comic book/graphic novel, movie, TV show or computer game.

Fan art is a legal minefield, and this page can do no more than provide some general guidance. Each fan art file must be considered individually on its merits. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Internet Meme

An Internet meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media that gains popularity and spreads rapidly via the Internet. An Internet meme is often helped along by social networking sites and blogs that post and repost popular memes and, in doing so, reinforce the popularity of the memes.

These are also known as Internet fads or Internet phenomenon.(Source: Techopedia)

The purpose of the list is to provide a more clear and detailed information about the rules as they have already been stated.

It also includes some of rules that have gone unstated. Many of these 'rules' felt like something where the moderators didn't need to state what we felt was rather obvious.

Personal Note: I can't express my gratitude enough to brazilfashion for all the work and effort that she has put into this list. What started as a rough idea would have never made it beyond my silly ramblings. It has been a pleasure to work together so well with another co-writer and editor.

Great list and very thorough, I think. I've noticed tons of those duplicate paparazzi photos (as in #18 on your list) and it just kills me why someone would even want to post those in the first place.

In regards to posting duplicates (of better quality), that would include those of a larger size when the former is extremely small, yes? I've noticed (a few) images that I liked were of icon size, basically, and I've uploaded a larger size - mainly because I wished to use it in a list.

I really didn't understand why someone would upload something that small when there were larger ones available (as is the 500/600 range). Anyway, thanks for posting this, as well. Can't wait to see the big update. I'm sure it will make Listal even better.

^ Yes, that includes ones that are larger versions of the one already posted. We want the largest size and the best quality possible. Just report the old one as a duplicate and we will delete it :)

I agree with everything else you say. I just don't get it. I guess people just want lots of points or to be the first one to post an image they think will get votes. Either way, its dumb and a complete waste of time. Doing stuff just to get points is silly. They mean nothing in real life.

One more way, when a profile has hundreds or thousands of pics, is to check with Google Images. Click on the Camera icon and enter the new image link. Google will find all the occurrences of the same image on the web, including those on listal.com if any.

#3 VS. #12.
Official Listal image posting rules, as in #3, say
"Nudity in artwork may be allowed as long as the image is not sexually explicit or pornographic in nature"

but in #12 you seem to give a stricter rule, by saying

"Photographic images revealing any sort of "private parts," whatsoever, are not allowed under any circumstances. This includes tasteful and non-sexual nudes."
"Although we are more lenient on skin-showing images which are tasteful and not sexually explicit, if such an image is showing "private parts" of any sort, it is against the rules. This includes movie posters from non-porn films, famous artist's photography and images from fashion magazines."

It is very very hard for duplicate photos. I always search for a long time, but if I post for models or top celebrities with over...what like 500000+ images then it gets really hard, it does sometimes happen. Though I would like to see something done about these paparazzi shots that clog up the galleries, it's very annoying. I would like that to stop. They're useless photos.

I have used Google image search to search for duplicates. There is a way to get to to search only listal.com but I'm rather clumsy with that function. I'll play around with it a little more and perhaps add that and the other tips to avoiding duplicates to the faq.

Thanks for noting the difference in #3 and #12. #3 refers to paintings and sculptures and #12 deals with photographic images specifically. I will clear up the wording or provide better examples on #12 and a few of the other entries.

@Rebekka The next update of Listal (date unknown) should introduce categories for images of people just as with films. That should help with finding images. Alas, obviously there is going to take time to sort all those images into their correct category.

@phillydude The same thing happened to me but they were actual reports from Listal members.

However, Tom is working on adding a feature to find duplicate images. As I under stand the feature it will only find images that are visual the same and also the same size and resolution. So, this won't cover all instances of duplicate images but it will help in the long run.

So, yep almost every most likely got images deleted today.

Also, the 'duplicate image deleted' notification has been turned back on. Yay!

Great list! I wish that all members on Listal had read this list. The information is very important. I'm new here on Listal, and this list answered all of my questions and worries about the image rules. Excellent job! Thank you very much :)

I guess I read it carefully, but still don't understand why they deleted a ton of rare behind the scenes pictures from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate factory and Lord of the Rings, like this
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/1817871

Jay, regarding #8 - the colorized images: I do some photography on the side and, to test some software, I downloaded some pic of a classic celeb (Cyd Charisse, I think) and ran the pic through a filter to eliminate all that pinkish tint that appears over time from data degradation. Can I report the "cleaned" images without getting into trouble with "reposting?"

Are images being deleted on a regular basis or only if they are reported? Because there are some galleries that are full of way too similar pictures. For example Taylor Swift has from some events 1-2 pages of the same outfit/poses. I was just wondering since I am still pretty new to this site.

And what is other i don't know if anyone knows what it is. i had deleted a number of pic's because they where duplicates and that's what I said, and one time I wrote a comment to someone that had a pic that was not of the person it was under and they deleted it.